As explained in the CM page of Christ ist erstanden, the chorale with this melody, although not the same as the chorale Christ ist erstanden in the Luther version, has a common origin and has undergone a similar transformation. Here portions of the same Leise[3] are used, transformed and amended once again to create another Easter chorale, which like Luther’s Christ ist erstanden, still in use today in the EKG.

A melody form which Bach may have encountered or used as found in a late 17th-century hymnal appears thus: